The Yellow Wallpaper
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · November 27, 2013
A Classics pick for readers exploring The Yellow Wallpaper.
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- Who it’s for
- A short, intimate story where private writing meets the limits placed on women’s health.
- Genres
- Feminist Fiction, Gothic Romance, Psychological Fiction
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, November 27, 2013
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THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health.
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Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period.
Private Pages
A short, intimate story where private writing meets the limits placed on women’s health.
Come here for
- A first-person journal shaped by confinement and secrecy
- A classic lens on women’s health and 19th-century attitudes
Expect
- Journal entries rather than a distant, retrospective account
- Psychological unease grounded in a period’s medical beliefs
Where it sits
| Feminist Fiction | 60% |
|---|---|
| Gothic Romance | 55% |
| Psychological Fiction | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Short Story Anthologies
- Psychological Fiction
- Authors
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- November 27, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Short Story Anthologies